Wilentz's Quotes

#1. A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.

Martin Scorsese

#2. Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.

Al Kooper

#3. Hurt tends to drown out sorry.

David Levithan

#4. To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.

Sean Wilentz

#5. If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.

James Webb

#6. Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

Arsene Houssaye

#7. You don't need a man, you need a champion.

Javier Bardem

#8. Write like you're paid by the word; edit like you pay for every word.

Andy Hollandbeck

#9. Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.

Sean Wilentz

#10. In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.

Kalle Lasn

#11. He means people who let their faith take the place of their reason, people who believe this world is just a prelude to another, more glorious life. He means people like you. *

Stewart O'Nan

#12. The problem of Palestine was that everyone wanted things simple: everyone was an extremist because everyone wanted things simple. It was the problem of humanity. Good and evil, as if there were only those two. The interesting thing was to seek truth and then face it.

Amy Wilentz

#13. I wanted to be Emma Goldman. I wanted to digest Doris Lessing's Golden Notebooks like biscuits. I felt like Harriet the Spy, looking for a dumbwaiter to hide in, scribbling down all I witnessed.

Susie Bright

#14. I opened the show with this line: I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.

Steve Martin

#15. Hope is the destination that we seek.
Love is the road that leads to hope.
Courage is the motor that drives us.
We travel out of darkness into faith.

Dean Koontz

#16. One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

Sean Wilentz

#17. Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

Sean Wilentz

#18. I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.

Sean Wilentz

#19. If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

Jamie Zawinski